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Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families book cover

1st Edition

Uncoupling Convention Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families

By Ann D'Ercole, Jack Drescher Copyright 2004
192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge
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What does it mean to be member of a gay/lesbian couple or family? The contributors to Uncoupling Convention: Psychoanalytic Approaches to Same-Sex Couples and Families address this question by drawing on two cultural movements of the twentieth century: psychoanalysis and the gay/lesbian civil rights movement. Taken together, these traditions provide a framework for understanding, and providing... Read more
Introduction-Ann D'Ercole and Jack Drescher
1. Ozzie and Harriet Are Dead: New Family Narratives in a Postmodern World -
Adria Schwartz
2. Gender "Indifference": Gender Development in Lesbian-Parented Families -Melanie Suchet
3. Couples, Imagined - P. Cheuvront
4. The Interplay of Difference and Shame: A Lesbian Couple in Treatment -
Ann D'Ercole
5. Is This Normal? Uncovering the Role of Homophobia in the Treatment of a Lesbian Couple - Judy Levitz
6. Teasing Apart Gender, Object Choice, and Motherhood in Lesbian Relationships - Deborah Glazer
7. The Lesbian "Great American Sperm Hunt": A Sociological Analysis of Selecting Donors and Constructing Relatedness - Laura Mamo
8. Passion, Play, and Erotic Potential Space in Lesbian Relationships -
Suzanne Iasenza
9. One Plus One Equals One: Financial Madness in Same-Sex Relationships -
Barbra Zuck Locker

Biography

Ann D'Ercole (Author) ,  Jack Drescher (Author)

“In this paradigm-shifting volume, D’Ercole and Drescher lift same-sex couples and families out of the margins and into the center of discourse about intimacy and domesticity.  All of us who want to make commitments, raise children, love passionately, and be socially respected for those intentions will find practical wisdom and scholarly erudition in these pages.”

- Virginia Goldner, Ph.D., Founding Editor, Studies in Gender and Sexuality

“Only recently has psychoanalysis been forced to come to terms with its century-long history of pathologizing and mistreating gays and lesbians. What a marvel it is to have reached a new disciplinary milestone with the publication of Uncoupling Convention.  In this significant collection,  D'Ercole and Drescher assemble clinicians who share an affirmative psychoanalytic sensibility to dynamic work with gay and lesbian individuals and with same-sex couples and families.  These essays are fresh, challenging, and provocative; they embody a new psychoanalytic discourse sensitive to the multiply varied configurations and practical social contexts of the postmodern family.”

- Lewis Aron, Ph.D., Director, NYU PostDoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis

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